Re: Purpose of this Newsgroup

From: silver+news@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

stateofmind@breathemail.net (Rob Harper) wrote in
<385be1d4_1@news2.vip.uk.com>:

>I reckon that soon website designers will calm down and work out
>how to use simple techniques to best effect, then everyone will be
>happy... well, almost everyone.

I don't think so.  You've still got marketing morons out there who adhere
to the philosophy of "I don't care how annoying it is as long as people
remember us."  I presently work with one such (our corporate website, which
members of MIS have threatened to hack and fix, opens with this piece of
evil:

bgsound src="Sounds/Musica%20Exclamation.WAV" loop="20"

(which for those of you not blessed with Windows, makes a "boingboingboig"
sound 20 times in rapid succession).  The current CD campaign (it's a bank,
by the by) involves some truly hideous posters (which have been *animated*
on the website), and the sad part is that we were just robbed (which is a
whole strange story of its own) and made the evening news on all three
local stations, and the news footage included the posters in the
background, and somebody called up the phone center during the newscast and
said "Hey, you've got 6.51% on 5-year CD's?  Sign me up!" and someone TOLD
THE MARKETING GUY.  So for a few thousand dollars (which I think we get
back from the dye-pack company anyway if it isn't recovered by the police),
we got the effect of a 60-second prime-time spot on all three stations, so
now we're expected the marketing department to start *staging* these
robberies since they're so cost-effective and...

Where was I going with this?

Oh yeah.  Web design is just flat not safe anymore with marketing people
involved.  You're assuming people will eventually wise up and remember good
taste, but some people never *had* good taste.

--
Karen Cravens (silver@phoenyx.net)
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References

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johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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"Rob Harper" <stateofmind@breathemail.net>
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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"Rob Harper" <stateofmind@breathemail.net>
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000